Humans have creativity to interpret visual and audio input in ways a computer would fail to do. They can think "outside the box" of ways information would attempt to be transmitted and find patterns a computer would miss. This also means they are more likely to have a false-positive for the message. The easiest example of this is a person who thinks they "heard voices" in background noise from equipment or closed rooms.
Giving a computer the ability to match this would require at least programming every imaginable pattern interpretation method in existence -- something I don't think the machine makers would be able to accomplish.
A phone that can be fully-managed with Group Policy/Active Directory
A phone that has a fully-functional Outlook client, with ALL the features of desktop Outlook that are practical to cram into a phone
That's IT. Most businesses would jump at the chance for those. Mobile security is a big issue, and there *still* isn't a truly good Exchange client for any phone (though some are close).
The fact that MS hasn't realized this stuff is mystifying. What are they thinking?
There's a lot more to the "smartphone market" than business features. I notice nothing on your list that would make the average consumer excited. Once upon a time BlackBerry ruled business smartphones. Why did that end? Because people wanted to be able to use their non-work smartphone as their work phone. So the phone that was king for consumers (the iPhone) started to displace the Blackberry.
If Microsoft wants to take over the smartphone market, they first have to make a dent in the hearts of the non-business market.
Editors, in case you never studied journalism, headlines are supposed to give a concise summary of the content and grab the reader's attention. They aren't supposed to blatantly mislead about the content of the story.
We already had that dingbat headline about the guy hacking the celebrities like he was on a murder spree and there was another one a couple days ago.
I've heard that doesn't work. There have been reports of people deciding not to go on their trip when confronted with an invasive security procedure, and then being detained and questions at that point. Their obvious reasoning being that if you suddenly change your mind you must be hiding something you thought would be revealed if you'd continued.
Just like the old Wargames joke: Seems the only way to win is not to play.
Have you looked into XPEnology? It's basically Synology's software hacked to run on any PC hardware you want. So you can keep your familiarity with the Synology interface and packages, and put them on a machine with horsepower you'll never see in Synology's product lineup.
Could this be because the school systems in these other countries are funded in a way where the budget is less dependent on local taxes. If the money is region/nationalized you don't end up with the more prosperous cities having nicer schools because they have higher income from local property taxes.
Also -- college is cheaper/free in many European countries. Less of a financial barrier-to-entry for higher education means more poverty-sicken students get to go to school.
We're talking about a model airplane here, smaller than a lot of hobbyists are already flying on a routine basis. Why in the world would they even be talking to the FAA about it?
Maybe they're getting a jump on the FAA's drone registration program, cause you know the Press calls every remote control aircraft a drone now.
Thunderbird has no CardDav support (there's the SoGo connector, but it's ready only and buggy)
Sounds like you have a configuration problem.
I have SoGo connector syncing two address books on two copies of Thunderbird (one on Win8.1, the other on OSX El Capitan) with my address book on OwnCloud running on my NAS, and it connects fine away from home over SSL through my router's port forwarding, and that's with read/write support.
okay, maybe I'm dense. But if we take the 5% of the workforce at face value, where exactly do you think losing that many jobs will be absorbed? And, if they aren't employed, there are serious limits to how much social support they can receive. Which leads to starvation and homelessness.
I'm not denying that autonomous trucks will put a bunch of truck drivers out of work, I'm laughing at the idea of Capitalist America not throwing the former truckers out on the street when their skills are suddenly made unmarketable. You got no job? Not our problem!" is exactly what will happen.
See, that's what the bolding I added means, I'm in disbelief the second part will happen.
They won't, as it has other implications. A.o. they would have to provide Internet connection for anyone that asks, for a fixed fee. So same fee for someone living in an urban high-rise as someone living in the middle of nowhere.
Really? Landline phone service is the poster child of common carrier services, and it sure isn't standardized pricing across the country.
I would say if the tenant is renting it out and able to make a profit it is only possible if the landlord is renting below market value. The tenant is merely exploiting the difference between his listed rental price and the market rental to make a profit.
You're assuming the (actual) renter is using AirBnB to make a profit. They could be simply renting out an extra room or the whole place while they are out of town to recoup some of their paid rent for that month. It's not possible to put your lease payments on hold while you're on vacation after all. The value of the residence isn't necessarily being judged wrong. The original renter agreed to pay the rate for all the space and amenities in the location, and now are getting money in return for letting someone use a portion of that they have already rented.
The cost of residence on a short-term basis is always higher than long term rental (even for just one month). Sounds like you're making the logical fallacy that if someone is willing to pay $X for one day that the value of the property is X*30 for a month.
I think we're going to have to accept at some point that truck driving and a lot of other skilled professions are eventually going to be automated away, and adjust our economy accordingly, and that includes not punishing the unemployed with the threat of starvation and homelessness.
I know this is a discussion of driverless cars, but I wasn't expecting such wild science fiction.
I wonder what legal reasons prevent including VLC as default media player in Android, ChromeOS, Windows.
You sound like you already know the answer to your own question. VLC includes code to account decoding of patent-encumbered media formats. DVD playback, AAC, AC3 are all formats that are not really free for people to implement playback for without paying the piper.
You know VLC for iOS will not decode AC3 -- unless you change you time zone location to somewhere outside the U.S.?
I could certainly be wrong of course - but one other possibility is that, because T-mobile is in 4th place among the major providers, they're desperate to find anything to set them apart from Verizon/AT&T.
Actually they are now the #3 carrier, as their gains in subscribers the past few years they have manged to slightly overtake Sprint.
This change was made in good faith. However, we under estimated the impact this would have on a small number of customers who use lights from other brands which could not be controlled by the Philips Hue software.
The fact they changed their decision shows it's not really such a small number of customers.
How are laws like this even legal? I doubt that even a single representative who voted on this bill read the entire bill.
The representatives voting on it are attesting that they have read and understand it by voting. The problem here is they are not held accountable to that, even though it's literally their job to be reading all these bills.
It's another case of people slacking off at work and their bosses (us) not firing them for it.
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Humans have creativity to interpret visual and audio input in ways a computer would fail to do. They can think "outside the box" of ways information would attempt to be transmitted and find patterns a computer would miss. This also means they are more likely to have a false-positive for the message. The easiest example of this is a person who thinks they "heard voices" in background noise from equipment or closed rooms.
Giving a computer the ability to match this would require at least programming every imaginable pattern interpretation method in existence -- something I don't think the machine makers would be able to accomplish.
All they need are these features:
A phone that can be fully-managed with Group Policy/Active Directory
A phone that has a fully-functional Outlook client, with ALL the features of desktop Outlook that are practical to cram into a phone
That's IT. Most businesses would jump at the chance for those. Mobile security is a big issue, and there *still* isn't a truly good Exchange client for any phone (though some are close).
The fact that MS hasn't realized this stuff is mystifying. What are they thinking?
There's a lot more to the "smartphone market" than business features. I notice nothing on your list that would make the average consumer excited.
Once upon a time BlackBerry ruled business smartphones. Why did that end? Because people wanted to be able to use their non-work smartphone as their work phone. So the phone that was king for consumers (the iPhone) started to displace the Blackberry.
If Microsoft wants to take over the smartphone market, they first have to make a dent in the hearts of the non-business market.
I wouldn't have expected that in a million years!
Well it sounds like this really stinks for those residents.
Editors, in case you never studied journalism, headlines are supposed to give a concise summary of the content and grab the reader's attention. They aren't supposed to blatantly mislead about the content of the story.
We already had that dingbat headline about the guy hacking the celebrities like he was on a murder spree and there was another one a couple days ago.
I've heard that doesn't work.
There have been reports of people deciding not to go on their trip when confronted with an invasive security procedure, and then being detained and questions at that point.
Their obvious reasoning being that if you suddenly change your mind you must be hiding something you thought would be revealed if you'd continued.
Just like the old Wargames joke: Seems the only way to win is not to play.
Isn't that an inalienable right granted by the Constitution? The same Constitution that doesn't apply within 100 miles of international airports?
Have you looked into XPEnology?
It's basically Synology's software hacked to run on any PC hardware you want.
So you can keep your familiarity with the Synology interface and packages, and put them on a machine with horsepower you'll never see in Synology's product lineup.
Could this be because the school systems in these other countries are funded in a way where the budget is less dependent on local taxes. If the money is region/nationalized you don't end up with the more prosperous cities having nicer schools because they have higher income from local property taxes.
Also -- college is cheaper/free in many European countries. Less of a financial barrier-to-entry for higher education means more poverty-sicken students get to go to school.
Deals aren't blocked by the checkbox...
Yes. I was so happy when I figured out blocking the StackSocial API with ABP took care of it all.
I'm betting on "the Mooninite", and a movie adaptation by Adult Swim.
We're talking about a model airplane here, smaller than a lot of hobbyists are already flying on a routine basis. Why in the world would they even be talking to the FAA about it?
Maybe they're getting a jump on the FAA's drone registration program, cause you know the Press calls every remote control aircraft a drone now.
Thunderbird has no CardDav support (there's the SoGo connector, but it's ready only and buggy)
Sounds like you have a configuration problem.
I have SoGo connector syncing two address books on two copies of Thunderbird (one on Win8.1, the other on OSX El Capitan) with my address book on OwnCloud running on my NAS, and it connects fine away from home over SSL through my router's port forwarding, and that's with read/write support.
okay, maybe I'm dense. But if we take the 5% of the workforce at face value, where exactly do you think losing that many jobs will be absorbed? And, if they aren't employed, there are serious limits to how much social support they can receive. Which leads to starvation and homelessness.
I'm not denying that autonomous trucks will put a bunch of truck drivers out of work, I'm laughing at the idea of Capitalist America not throwing the former truckers out on the street when their skills are suddenly made unmarketable. You got no job? Not our problem!" is exactly what will happen.
See, that's what the bolding I added means, I'm in disbelief the second part will happen.
They won't, as it has other implications. A.o. they would have to provide Internet connection for anyone that asks, for a fixed fee. So same fee for someone living in an urban high-rise as someone living in the middle of nowhere.
Really? Landline phone service is the poster child of common carrier services, and it sure isn't standardized pricing across the country.
I would say if the tenant is renting it out and able to make a profit it is only possible if the landlord is renting below market value. The tenant is merely exploiting the difference between his listed rental price and the market rental to make a profit.
You're assuming the (actual) renter is using AirBnB to make a profit. They could be simply renting out an extra room or the whole place while they are out of town to recoup some of their paid rent for that month. It's not possible to put your lease payments on hold while you're on vacation after all. The value of the residence isn't necessarily being judged wrong. The original renter agreed to pay the rate for all the space and amenities in the location, and now are getting money in return for letting someone use a portion of that they have already rented.
The cost of residence on a short-term basis is always higher than long term rental (even for just one month).
Sounds like you're making the logical fallacy that if someone is willing to pay $X for one day that the value of the property is X*30 for a month.
I think we're going to have to accept at some point that truck driving and a lot of other skilled professions are eventually going to be automated away, and adjust our economy accordingly, and that includes not punishing the unemployed with the threat of starvation and homelessness.
I know this is a discussion of driverless cars, but I wasn't expecting such wild science fiction.
What happened? Is it not cool now that Windows is doing it too?
Probably sick of losing users to Mint -- as though the it has nothing to do with Unity itself.
That's pretty optimistic. I'm sure we'll have a duplicate discussion about this before the end of the year.
I wonder what legal reasons prevent including VLC as default media player in Android, ChromeOS, Windows.
You sound like you already know the answer to your own question.
VLC includes code to account decoding of patent-encumbered media formats. DVD playback, AAC, AC3 are all formats that are not really free for people to implement playback for without paying the piper.
You know VLC for iOS will not decode AC3 -- unless you change you time zone location to somewhere outside the U.S.?
I could certainly be wrong of course - but one other possibility is that, because T-mobile is in 4th place among the major providers, they're desperate to find anything to set them apart from Verizon/AT&T.
Actually they are now the #3 carrier, as their gains in subscribers the past few years they have manged to slightly overtake Sprint.
I don't think I could answer that question if the guides asked me -- cause I'd be stuck trying to figure out what they said.
Maybe he's afraid the turbines will use up all the wind and effect games at the gold course.
This change was made in good faith. However, we under estimated the impact this would have on a small number of customers who use lights from other brands which could not be controlled by the Philips Hue software.
The fact they changed their decision shows it's not really such a small number of customers.
How are laws like this even legal? I doubt that even a single representative who voted on this bill read the entire bill.
The representatives voting on it are attesting that they have read and understand it by voting.
The problem here is they are not held accountable to that, even though it's literally their job to be reading all these bills.
It's another case of people slacking off at work and their bosses (us) not firing them for it.